Conventions in Michigan mark official kick-off of U.S. Senate race

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Aug. 23, 2014

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The U.S. Senate race officially got under way Saturday with both candidates going on the attack in party state conventions in Novi and Lansing.

Former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, R-Byron Center, went first by slamming U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, claiming he is a hypocrite, flip-flopper and beholden to President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

"Whenever men tell me about a war on women, I'm suspicious," she said to a packed house at the Suburban Collection Showplace convention center in Novi. "Can you say hypocrisy? I'm not going to be lectured ...